While open communication is ideal, you need to temper your expectations.
He has a nasty temper, which isn't ideal for the hand holding a nuclear trigger.
The screwball movies, at their peak, defined certain ideal qualities of insouciance, a fineness of romantic temper in which men and women could be aggressive but not coarse, angry but not rancorous, silly but not shamed, melancholy but not ravaged.
This peninsular setting, with the waters tempering the climate year round, is ideal for grapes, most of which Mr. Hayes has planted since 1992.
It will bolster the ideal of good governance and a social vision that tempers individualism with a concern for community.
They had the ideal candidate in Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman who had been tempered in the fires of Washington.
Bullets ripples with vintage Allen dialogue, and Braff is an ideal Allen hero, a principled artist whose altruism is tempered by pragmatism.
Known in the securities world for astounding investment returns and an occasionally volcanic temper, he is described by dealers as the ideal collector — warm, dedicated, eager to take home the best pieces and unafraid to spend what it takes.
She's ideal for songs that usually revolve around old-fashioned romance; she tempers heartbreak with savoir-faire.
Through the story characters' attempts at explaining Lad's inexplicable actions using "mythologies of atavism", Terhune reflects his own views of an ideal relationship between a parent and child, namely an "ideology of noble instinct tempered by inflexible training".
Meanwhile, his brutish temper and drunken, adulterous behaviour failed to comply with the emergent post-war ideal of companionable marriage.
